{Intro}
{Verse} [E] [F#m] It’s bringing me down, I’m running aground, [D] [A] [E] Blind in the light of the interstate cars [E] [F#m] Passing me by, the busses and semi’s, [D] [A] [E] 🫠 Plunging like stones from a slingshot on mars
{Pre-Chorus} [A] [D] But I’m here by the road, bound to the load [Bm] [E] 🫠 That I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars [A] [D] Alone with the rush of the drivers who won’t pick me up [Bm] [E] 🫠 The highway, the moon, the clouds, and the stars
{Chorus} [D] / / [ C#m] / [A] / Black throated wind, keeps on pouring in [A] / / [Em] / [C] / [A] / With its words of a life where nothing is new [D] / [C#m] [A] [Em] / [A] / Ah, mother american night, I’m lost from the light [G] [D] [A] [A] 🫠 Oh, I’m drowning in you
{Intro}
{Verse} [E] [F#m] I left St. Louis, city of blues, [D] [A] [E] in the midst of a storm I’d rather forget [E] [F#m] I tried to pretend it came to an end [D] [A] [E] 🫠 Cause you weren’t the woman I once thought I’d met
{Pre-Chorus} [A] [D] But I can’t deny, that times have gone by [Bm] [E] 🫠 Where I never had doubts or thoughts of regret [A] [D] And I was a man when all this began [Bm] [E] 🫠 Who wouldn’t think twice about being there yet
{Chorus} [D] / / [C#m] / [A] / Black throated wind, whispering sin [A] / / [Em] / [C] / [A] / And it speaks of a life that passes like dew [D] / [C#m] [A] [Em] / [A] / It’s forced me to see that you’ve done better by me [G] [D] [A] [A] 🫠 Better by me than I’ve done by you
{Intro}
{Verse} [E] [F#m] Now what’s to be found racing around. [D] [A] [E] You carry your pain wherever you go [E] [F#m] All full of the blues and trying to lose [D] [A] [E] 🫠 You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know
{Pre-Chorus} [A] [D] So I give you my eyes, and all of their lies [Bm] [E] 🫠 Please help them to learn as well as to see [A] [D] Capture a glance, and make it dance [Bm] [E] 🫠 Of looking at you, looking at me
{Chorus} [D] / / [ C#m] / [ A] / Black throated wind, keeps on pouring in [A] / / [Em] / [C] / [A] / With its words of a lie that could almost be true [D] / [C#m] [A] [Em] / [A] / Ah, mother american night, here comes the light [G] [D] [A] [A] 🫠 I’m turning around, that’s what I’m gonna do
{Refrain} [G] [D] [A] [A] 🫠 Going back home that’s what I’m gonna do [G] [D] [A] [A] 🫠 I’m turning around, that’s what I’m gonna do [G] [D] [A] [A] 🫠 Going back home that’s what I’m gonna do [G] [D] [A] [A] 🫠 Whoaooo I’m drownin (inaudible)
Resolve A > A7 > Dm
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